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Quotes from The Winter of Our Discontent — John Steinbeck

1902–1968 United States

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We can shoot rockets into space but we can’t cure anger or discontent.

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

Even if teen-age children aren't making a sound, it's quieter when they're gone. They put a boiling in the air around them. As they left, the whole house seemed to sigh and settle. No wonder poltergeists infest only houses with adolescent children.

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

I guess I’m trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

It is odd how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place — everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

Failure is a state of mind. It’s like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Steinbeck (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.